• Habitat family gains a sense of pride with new home. Planning for the project began in March and the foundation laid April 24, but as of Sunday, Simone Andrist and her two children, 14-year-old Austin and 13-year-old Amber, received the keys to their new East Holston Avenue home.

• Locals mining for stories in Africa. Jimmy Neil Smith, president emeritus of the International Storytelling Center, and Jules Corriere, outreach director for the McKinney Cultural Arts Center, are just back from a nine-day “story mining” trip to Comoros, East Africa, a tiny island nation near Madagascar and the target of ISC’s first international outreach.

• Police say men threw bricks at each other. An investigation into a fight at about 2 a.m. on Thursday revealed that two men had been beating each other up with bricks before going to jail, according to a Johnson City police report.